CBS faces backlash over 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene. One commentator deplored giving ‘such an unimpeded platform to spread such garbage’. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Rex/Shutterstock

CBS came under fire after devoting an interview on its flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right pro-Trump congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused conspiracy theories and faced censure for threatening behaviour towards Democrats.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York progressive congresswoman among those threatened by Greene, told Semafor: “These kinds of extreme and really just unprecedented and dangerous notions are getting platforms, without much pushback or real kind of critical analysis.”